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Corto Maltese: The Secret Rose Now in Stores!

Run—don’t walk—to your nearest comicshop and pick up the latest in our Corto Maltese series! The Secret Rose is unlike any other Corto adventure and is bound to have you using parts of your brain you’ve never used before!

JT Lindroos of Euro Comics Roundup says, “The Secret Rose was the first Corto Maltese book I ever read, and I hadn’t read it in more than a quarter of a century. It’s still equally marvelous as it was then, albeit I look at it with older and slightly more learned eyes, finding there to — indeed — be a multitude of layers I’d never even considered before. I expect in another 25 years, if I remain equally curious, to find another universe deep within its folds. There’s nothing like Corto Maltese in the history of comics or literature. It’s wholly unique, individualistic to its core, and enormously entertaining. Read them all.”

“I read my first Corto Maltese story when I was ten years old and, ever since, this was the version of Corto I’ve wanted on my shelves. At long last, Pratt’s masterpiece washes up on American shores the way it was intended to be seen and read, the way fans all over the world have known and loved it for decades. If you’re like me, rejoice: our long wait is over. And if this is the first time you’ve experienced the world of Corto Maltese, I envy you. There’s a perfect comic just waiting for you between these covers.”
—MATT FRACTION

“Corto Maltese was the first European strip to advance a mature, artistically serious sensibility within the traditional adventure format. The elliptical narrative of the stories, the pervasive sense of destiny and tragedy, the side trips into the worlds of dreams and magic—all capped off with the exotic, guarded nature of the hero—combined with Pratt’s hard-won craft, worldly experience, and scrupulous research to form a work of breathtaking scope and power.”
—KIM THOMPSON

“I bet you thought you had a kick-ass graphic novel collection that included all of the essential works by all the essential authors, but if you didn’t have this brand-new, first-rate, high-quality edition of Hugo Pratt’s masterpiece, then you did not have a kick-ass graphic novel collection. Now you do. (And so do I.)”
—BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS

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